Librarian's Reading Lists 2010...  

...only for students who have already read books from their class reading list

JK & Kindergarten

All titles are fiction unless otherwise noted

 

Allen, Judy – Are You a Ladybug? (Kingfisher, 2000) *non-fiction 

Anderson, Jill – Zebras – (NorthWord, 2005) *non-fiction 

Aston, Dianna Hutts – Mama Outside, Mama Inside (Holt, 2006) 

Barton, Byron – My Car (Greenwillow, 2001) 

Beatty, Andrea – Doctor Ted (McElderry Books, 2008) 

Brett, Jan – Daisy Comes Home (Puffin Books, 2002) 

Charlip, Remy – A Perfect Day (Greenwillow, 2007) 

Child, Lauren – Say Cheese! (Dial Books, 2007) 

Choldenko, Gennifer – Louder, Lili (Putnam, 2007) 

Cronin, Doreen – Click, Clack, Splish, Splash: A Counting Adventure (Atheneum, 2006) 

Cunnane, Kelly – For You Are a Kenyan Child (Atheneum, 2006) 

Dewdney, Anna – Nobunny’s Perfect (Viking, 2008) 

Dodd, Emma – Just Like You (Dutton, 2007) 

Dodds, Dayle Ann – The Prince Won’t Go to Bed! 

(Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007) 

English, Karen – Hot Day on Abbott Avenue (Clarion 2004) 

Ficocelli, Elizabeth – Kid Tea (Marshall Cavendish, 2007) 

Ganeri, Anita – From Seed to Sunflower (Heinemann, 2006) *non-fiction 

Geras, Adele – Little Ballet Star (Dial, 2007) 

Gorbachev, Valeri – Turtle’s Penguin Day (Knopf, 2008) 

Gravett, Emily – Monkey and Me (Simon & Schuster, 2008) 

Hayes, Sarah – Dog Day (Farrar, Straus * Giroux, 2008) 

Henkes, Kevin – Old Bear (Greenwillow, 2008) 

Hennessy, Barbara G. – Because of You (Candlewick, 2007) 

Hudson, Cheryl Willis – Construction Zone (Candlewick, 2006) 

Ichikawa, Satomi – My Father’s Shop (Kane/Miller, 2004) 

Jenkins, Martin – Ape (Candlewick) *non-fiction 

Kajikawa, Kimiko – Close to You: How Animals Bond (Holt, 2008) *non-fiction 

Klise, Kate – Imagine Harry (Harcourt 2007) 

Korchek, Lori – Adventures of a Cow (Tricycle Press, 2005) 

Kuskin, Karla – Green as a Bean (Laura Geringer Books, 2007) 

Lehman, Barbara – Museum Trip (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) 

Lobel, Anita – Hello, Day! (Greenwillow, 2008) 

Patricelli, Leslie – The Birthday Box (Candlewick, 2007) 

Pinkwater, Daniel – Bear’s Picture (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) 

Raye, Rebekah – The Very Best Bed (Tilbury House, 2006) 

Rodriguez, Edel – Sergio Makes a Splash (Little, Brown, 2008) 

Ruelle, Karen Gray – Bark Park (Peachtree, 2008) 

Schertle, Alice – Little Blue Truck (Harcourt, 2008) 

Schertle, Alice – A Very Hairy Bear (Harcourt, 2007) 

Schoenherr, Ian – Pip & Squeak (Greenwillow, 2007) 

Schwartz, Amy – A Beautiful Girl (Roaring Brook, 2006) 

Schwartz, Corey Rosen – Hop! Plop! (Walker, 2006) 

Seeger, Laura Caccaro – One Boy (Roaring Brook, 2008) 

Sherry, Kevin – I’m the Biggest Thing in the Ocean (Dial, 2007) 

Squires, Janet – The Gingerbread Cowboy (Laura Geringer Books, 2006) 

Stewart, Melissa - When Rain Falls (Peachtree, 2008) 

Stockdale, Susan – Fabulous Fishes (Peachtree, 2008) 

Swanson, Susan Marie – The House in the Night (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) 

Tourville, Amanda Doering – A Crocodile Grows Up (Picture Window Books, 2007) *non-fiction 

Urbanovic, Jackie – Duck Soup (Harper Collins, 2008) 

Warnes, Tim - Mommy Mine (Harper Collins, 2005) *non-fiction 

Weaver, Tess – Cat Jumped In! (Clarion, 2007) 

Wells, Rosemary – Max’s Bunny Business (Viking, 2008) 

Willems, Mo – The Pigeon Wants a Puppy (Hyperion, 2008) 

Willis, Jeanne – Cottonball Colin (Erdmans Books, 2008) 

Wilson, Karma – Bear Feels Scared (McElderry Books, 2008) 

Wood, Audrey – A Dog Needs a Bone (Blue Sky Press, 2007) 

Ziefert, Harriet – Bigger Than Daddy (Blue Apple Books, 2006)

 
***Adapted from the HASLN 2009 Recommended Reading List***  
 
 

 Grades 1st & 2nd

Adler, David – President George Washington (Holiday House, 2005) *biography

Adler, David – Young Cam Jansen and the Lion’s Lunch Mystery (Penguin, 2007) 

Arnold, Ted – The Twin Princes (Dial, 2007) 

Becker, Bonnie – A Visitor for Bear (Candlewick Press, 2008) 

Brett, Jan – Hedgie Blasts Off! (Putnam, 2006) 

Chaconas, Dori – Cork and Fuzz: The Collectors (Viking, 2008) 

Cronin, Doreen – Diary of a Spider (Joanna Cotler Books, 2005) 

Davies, Nicola – Surprising Sharks (Candlewick Press, 2007) *non-fiction 

Deans, Karen – Playing to Win: The Story of Althea Gibson (Holiday House, 2007) *biography 

Dicamillo, Kate – Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig (Candlewick Press, 2008) 

Ernst, Lisa Campbell – The Gingerbread Girl (Dutton Children’s Books, 2006) 

Fleishman, Paul – Sidewalk Circus (Candlewick Press, 2004) 

Florian, Douglass – Bow Wow Meow: It’s Rhyming Cats and Dogs (Harcourt, 2003) *poetry 

Grogan, John – Bad Dog Marley (Harper Collins, 2007) 

Harper, Jessica – Uh-Oh, Cleo (Putnam, 2008) 

Hicks, Betty – Goof-Off Goalie (Roaring Brook Press, 2008) 

Hills, Tad – Duck and Goose (Schwartz and Wade Books, 2006) 

Hort, Lenny – Did Dinosaurs Eat Pizza? Mysteries Science Hasn’t Solved (Holt, 2006) *non-fiction 

Howe, James – Howie and Catina and the Birthday Surprise (Candlewick, 2006) 

Isadora, Rachel – Nick Plays Baseball (Putnam, 2001) 

Jeffers, Susan – My Chincoteague Pony (Hyperion, 2008) 

Karas, Brian G. – On Earth (Putnam, 2005) *non-fiction 

Kaczman, James – Lucky Monkey – Unlucky Monkey (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) 

Kimmel, Eric A – Anazi’s Party Time (Holiday House, 2008) 

Kimmel, Eric A – Stormy’s Hat: Just Right for the Railroad Man (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) 

Knudsen, Michelle – Library Lion (Candlewick Press, 2006) 

Krensky, Stephen – Milo the Really Big Bunny (Simon & Schuster, 2006) 

Labatt, Mary – Sam Gets Lost (Kids Can Press, 2004) 

Landry, Leo – Sea Surprise (Holt, 2005) 

Leedy, Loreen – Missing Math: A Number Mystery (Marshall Cavendish, 2008) 

Lies, Brian – Bats at the Library (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) 

Markle, Sandra – Spiders: Biggest! Littlest! (Boyd Mills, 2004) 

McDonald, Megan – Stink and the Great Guinea Pig Express (Candlewick Press, 2008) 

McKissack, Patricia – Precious and the Boo Hag (Atheneum, 2005) 

McNulty, Faith – If You Decide to go to the Moon (Scholastic, 2005) 

Muth, Jon – Zen Shorts (Scholastic, 2005) 

Nixon, Joan Lowery - Gus and Gertie and the Lucky Charms (SeaStar, 2002) 

Numeroff, Laura – The Jellybeans and the Dance (Abrams Books for Young People, 2008) 

O’Flatharta, Antoine – Hurry and the Monarch (Knopf, 2005) 

Reynolds, Peter – The Dot (Candlewick, 2003) 

Rodman, Mary Ann – My Best Friend (Viking, 2005) 

Sayer, April Pulley – Army Ant Parade (Holt, 2002) 

Schachner, Judy – Skippyjon Jones in Mummy Trouble (Dutton Children’s Books, 2006) 

Scotton, Rob – Splat the Cat (Harper Collins, 2008) 

Shannon, David – Too Many Toys (Blue Sky Press, 2008) 

Smothers, Ethel Footman – Hard Times Jar (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003) 

Steward, Dawn Lesley – Harriet’s Horrible Hair Day (Peachtree, 2000) 

Swope, Sam – Gotta Go! Gotta Go! (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000) 

Tavares, Matt – Mudball (Candlewick, 2005) 

Thomas, Shelley Moore – Take Care, Good Knight (Dutton, 2006) 

Umansky, Kaye – I Don’t Like Gloria (Candlewick Press, 2007) 

Van Leeuwen, Jean – Oliver the Mighty Pig (Dial, 2004) 

Weatherby, Brenda – The Trucker (Scholastic, 2004)

 ***Adapted from the HASLN 2009 Recommended Reading List***

 

Grades 3rd & 4th

Badgert, Brod – School Fever (Dial, 2008) *poetry 

Barshaw, Ruth – Ellie McDoodle: New Kid at School (Bloomsbury, 2007) 

Berman, Len – And Nobody got Hurt 2! The World’s Weirdest, Wackiest, and Most Amazing True Sports Stories (Little, Brown, 2007) *non-fiction 

Bidner, Jenni – Is My Dog a Wolf: How Your Pet Compares to its Wild Cousin (Lark Books, 2006) *non-fiction 

Birney, Betty – Trouble According to Humphrey (Puffin, 2008) 

Brooks, Gwendolyn – Bronzeville Boys and Girls (HarperCollins,2007)*poetry 

Bunting, Eve – Reggie (Cricket, 2006) 

Byars, Betsy – Dog Diaries: Secret Writings of the WOOF Society (Henry Holt, 2007) 

Clements, Andrew – Dogku (Simon & Schuster, 2007) 

Climo, Shirley – Tuko and the Birds (Henry Holt, 2008) 

Cline-Ransome, Lesa – Young Pele: Soccer’s First Star (Schwartz & Wade, 2007) *biography 

Collins, Ross – Medusa Jones (Arthur A. Levine, 2008) 

Coombs, Kate – The Secret-Keeper (Atheneum, 2006) 

Creech, Sharon – Hate That Cat (Joanna Cotler, 2008) 

Davidson, Avelyn – Beach Biology (Children’s Press, 2008) *non-fiction 

Davies, Nicola – Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth (Candlewick, 2006) *non-fiction 

Eilenberg, Max – Beauty and the Beast (Candlewick, 2006) 

Fleischman, Paul – Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella (Henry Holt, 2007) 

Friedman, Laurie B. – Honestly Mallory! (Carolrhoda, 2008) 

Giblin, James – Did Fleming Rescue Churchill? A Research Puzzle (Henry Holt, 2008) 

Gifford, Peggy – Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Writing Thank-you Notes (Schwartz & Wade. 2008) 

Giovanni, Nikki – The Grasshopper’s Song: an Aesop’s Fable Revisited (Candlewick, 2008) 

Goldish, Meish – Gray Wolves Return to Yellowstone (Bearport, 2008) *non-fiction 

Greenwald, Shelia – Rosy Cole’s Memoir Explosion (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006) 

Grimes, Nikki – Thanks a Million (Greenwillow, 2006) *poetry 

Gutman, Dan – Nightmare at the Book Fair (Simon & Schuster, 2008) 

Haas, Jessie – Jigsaw Pony (Greenwillow, 2005) 

Hamilton, Virginia – The Girl Who Spun Gold (Scholastic, 2000) 

Hansen, Rosanna – Caring for Cheetahs: My African Adventure (Boyds Mill, 2007) *non-fiction 

Harper, Charies Mericle – Just Grace Walks the Dog (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) 

Hicks, Betty – Basketball Bats (Roaring Brook Press, 2008) 

Holt, Kimberly Willis – Piper Reed, the Great Gypsy (Henry Holt, 2008) 

James, Helen Foster – S is for S’mores (Sleeping Bear Press, 2008) 

Jenkins, Emily – Toys Dance Party (Schwarz & Wade, 2008) 

Jenkins, Steve – Dogs and Cats, Cats and Dogs (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) 

Keller, Laurie – Do Unto Otters: A Book About Manners (Henry Holt, 2007) 

Kerley, Barbara – What to do About Alice? (Scholastic Press, 2008) *historical fiction 

Ketterman, Helen – Waynetta and the Cornstalk: A Texas Fairy Tale (Albert Whitman, 2007) 

Kimmel, Eric – A Picture for Marc (Random House, 2007) 

Levine, Ellen – Henry’s Freedom Box (Scholastic, 2007) 

Lin, Grace – The Year of the Rat (Little, Brown, 2008) 

Look, Lenore – Alvin Ho, Allregic to Girls, School and Other Scary Things (Schwartz & Wade, 2008) 

Lubar, David – Punished! (Darby Creek, 2006) 

Mannis, Celeste – Julia Morgan Built a Castle (Viking, 2006) 

Markle, Sandra – Animal Heroes: True Rescue Stories (Milbrook Press, 2009) 

Martin, Anne & Godwin, Laura – The Runaway Dolls (Hyperion, 2008) 

McDonald, Megan – Judy Moody Around the World in 8 ½ Days (Candlewick, 2006) 

Mills, Claudia – Being Teddy Roosevelt (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007) 

Morris, Gerald – The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) 

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds – Patches and Scratches (Marshall Cavendish, 2007) 

Nivola, Claire – Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) *biography 

Nolan, Lucy – Bad to the Bone (Marshall Cavendish, 2008) 

Osborne, Mary Pope – Pompeii Lost & Found (Knopf, 2006) 

Pennypacker, Sarah – Clementine’s Letter (Hyperion, 2008) 

Perkins, Mitali – Rickshaw Girl (Charlesbridge, 2007) 

Prelutsky, Jack – My Dog May be a Genius (Greenwillow, 2008) * poetry 

Ryder, Joanne – A Pair of Polar Bears: Twin Cubs Find a Home at the San Diego Zoo (Simon & Schuster, 2006) *non-fiction 

Saint-Lot, Katia Novet – Amandi’s Snowman (Tilbury House, 2008) 

Salas Laura Purdie – Chatter, Sing, Roar, Buzz: Poems About the Rainforest (Capstone Press, 2009) *poetry 

Simon, Seymour – Horses (HarperCollins, 2006) non-fiction 

Sonnenblick, Jordan – Dodger and Me (Feiwel & Friends, 2008) 

Tate, Lindsey – Kate Larkin, the Bone Expert (Henry Holt, 2008) 

Urbigkit, Cat – The Shepherd’s Trail (Boyd Mills, 2008) *non-fiction 

Vande Velde, Vivian – Three Good Deeds (Harcourt, 2005) 

Weatherford, Carole Boston – I, Matthew Henson (Walker & Co., 2008) 

Wiley, Margaret – Clever Beatrice and the Best Little Puppy (Atheneum, 2004)

***Adapted from the HASLN 2009 Recommended Reading List***  

Grade 5

Appelt, Kathi – The Underneath (Atheneum, 2008) 

Armstrong, Alan W. – Whittington (Random House, 2005) 

Arnold, Nick – Horrible Science (many titles) (Scholastic, 2008) *non-fiction

Avi – Never Mind!: A Twin Novel (HarperCollins, 2004) 

Balliet, Blue – Chasing Vermeer (Scholastic Press, 2004) 

Broach, Elise – Masterpiece (Holt/Christy, 2008) 

Carman, Patrick – Atherton (Little/Brown 2007) 

Choldenko, Gennifer – Al Capone Does My Shirts (Putnam, 2004) 

Codell, Esme Raji – Sahara Special (Hyperion 2003) 

Collins, Suzanne – The Hunger Games Series (Scholastic 2008)

Corbett, Sue – Free Baseball (Dutton, 2006) 

Creech, Sharon – Heartbeat (Joanna Cotler, 2004) 

Deary, Terry – Horrible Histories (many titles) (Scholastic 2007) *non-fiction

Delano, Marfe Ferguson – Helen’s Eyes (National Geographic, 2008) 

DiCamillo, Kate – The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Candlewick, 2006) 

Feldman, Jody – The Gollywhopper Games (Greenwillow, 2008) 

Florian, Douglas – Omnibeasts (Harcourt, 2004) *Poetry 

Forester, Victoria - The Girl Who Could Fly (Fiewel and Friends, 2008) 

Ganeri, Anita – Horrible Geography (many titles) (Scholastic, 2008) *non-fiction

Giff, Patricia Reilly- Eleven (Wendy Lamb 2008) 

Gutman, Dan – Satch and ME: A Baseball Card Adventure (HarperCollins, 2006) 

Hale, Shannon – Rapunzel’s Revenge (Bloomsbury 2008) 

Halls, Kelly Milner – Tales of the Cryptids (Darby Creek Publishing, 2006) 

Hobbs, Will – Jackie’s Wild Seattle (HarperCollins, 2003) 

Horvath, Polly – The Pepins and Their Problems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004) 

Ibbotson, Eva – Dragonfly Pool (Dutton, 2008) 

Jackson, Donna M – ER Vets:Life in an Animal Emergency Room (Houghton Mifflin, 2005) *non-fiction 

Karr, Kathleen – Exiled: Memoirs of a Camel (Marshall Cavendish, 2004) *historical fiction 

Kerley, Barbara – What Whitman: Words for America (Scholastic, 2004) *biography 

Kraske, Robert – Marooned: The Strange but True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, 

the Real Robinson Crusoe (Marshall Cavendish, 2004) 

Lasky, Kathryn – The Man Who Made Time Travel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003) 

Lowry, Lois – The Willoughbys (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) 

Montgomery, Sy – The Quest for the Tree Kangaroo (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) *non-fiction 

Napoli, Donna Jo – The King of Mulberry Street (Wendy Lamb, 2005) *historical fiction 

Peck, Richard – On the Wings of Freedom (Dial, 2007) *historical fiction 

Smith, Roland – The Cryptid Hunters (Hyperion, 2005) 

Springer, Nancy – The Case of the Missing Marquess: an Enloa Holmes Mystery (Philomel, 2006) 

St. John, Lauren – The White Giraffe (Dial, 2007) 

Townley, Roderick – The Great Good Thing (Atheneum, 2001) 

Walker, Alice – Langston Hughes, American Poet (Harper Collins, 2002) *biography 

Wiles, Deborah – Each Little Bird That Sings (Harcourt, 2005) 

Zimmer, Tracie Vaughan – 42 Miles (Clarion, 2008)